Dartmouth Professor Gary Wegner and Visiting Professor Roberto Onofrio have shown, in a recent article appearing in the Astrophysical Journal, how observations of white dwarfs can be used to learn about novel gravitational physics of the newly-discovered Higgs boson. Read the phys.org article here.
[more]It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Professor William Doyle. Bill dedicated his career to teaching and mentoring countless Dartmouth undergraduate and graduate students. Even in his retirement he could regularly be found in Wilder, talking with students and colleagues, and working on his research.
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Four of Dartmouth’s E.E. Just Scholars spent July 14 immersed in the science and history of Woods Hole’s Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), where pioneering cellular biologist Ernest Everett Just, Class of 1907, spent 20 summers conducting research. Just was one of Dartmouth’s earliest African American graduates.
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A team of Dartmouth scientists and their colleagues have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light—and may play a crucial role in the development of quantum computers.
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“When I got into science, my goal was ambitious but simple: to devise a theory that could explain ‘everything,’ at least everything about the physical world,” writes Dartmouth’s Marcelo Gleiser in a Washington Post opinion piece.
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